ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

On June 20, 2023, the Spanish Supreme Court handed down its final ruling in the case of Greenpeace v. The decision, formally communicated to the parties on July 27, marks a pivotal moment in climate litigation. However, the Supreme Court found that the Spanish Government had complied with the Paris Agreement and the EU legislation.

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LPB Network

MARCH 9, 2021

Ann Woolhandler and Julia Mahoney have posted on SSRN a draft of their article, Federal Courts and Takings Litigation. Here’s the abstract: Disagreements about takings claims extend to both substantive and jurisdictional issues. Many advocates of deference to state and.

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Law 360

JULY 11, 2022

Parties are increasingly using e-discovery technologies to control costs, but as a New York federal court order in Actos Antitrust Litigation shows, a well-drafted, negotiated protocol allows them to address potential objections prior to use and helps protect against later claims of incomplete production, say attorneys at McGuireWoods.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The post further explores the potential implications of this clarification for climate litigation, while highlighting the key provisions that underscore the responsibilities of states in safeguarding children’s rights within the ever-evolving environmental landscape.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In what it appears would be a first for a federal circuit court, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering adoption of a rule change that would require lawyers and unrepresented litigants to provide a certification regarding their use of artificial intelligence in preparing court filings.

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NCBA Law Practice Management Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

That’s especially true for litigation firms, which take direction from court rules and judges about when and how things get done. So, if you end up needing to draft a document for court, remind yourself, beforehand: to do the research, to generate a first draft, to get feedback on your draft, to make final edits.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

These skills helped me conduct comprehensive legal research, understand the legal language, simplify complex information, and draft convincing legal documents/arguments with accuracy and clarity. Understanding Legal Procedures I was exposed to multiple areas of law such as Civil Litigation, Criminal Law, Business law, etc.,

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has lost its bid to dismiss four of five counterclaims filed by the legal technology company Xcential Legislative Technologies in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. Superior Court Judge Juliet J. McKenna disagreed.

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LegalReader

JUNE 8, 2021

While several justices appeared to support the lawsuit's underlying logic, the bench will give Congress time to pass any necessary reform.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Proposed Regulation of Third Party Litigation Funding in the European Union. Written by Adrian Cordina , PhD researcher at Erasmus School of Law, project member of the Vici project ‘Affordable Access to Justice ’ which deals with costs and funding of civil litigation, financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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Knackly

APRIL 26, 2023

They provide legal advice and services, representing individuals and organizations in court cases, contracts, transactions, and an almost unending number of other matters. All too often, attorneys must put in extra time and effort to ensure that all of the information is accurate and ready for court.

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Mondaq

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Litigators have different drafting styles when it comes to pleadings. Their goal is often to tell the story from their client's perspective and convince the reader that their client's case is compelling.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

A 25-person legal technology company in California is fighting back against one of the world’s largest law firms in a lawsuit over ownership rights to legislation-drafting software that each side says was its idea. This litigation should be a warning to all innovative legal technology providers.”. Series of Meetings.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In fairness, the Missouri case involved a pro se litigant, not a lawyer, but that pro se litigant claimed to have gotten the citations from a lawyer he hired through the internet. Karlen , the unwitting litigant filed an appellate brief in which 22 of 24 cases were fictitious. The court was not sympathetic.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 6, 2024

We would also like to thank Professor Beligh Elbalti for his critical comments on the draft blogpost. The Kenyan Supreme Court held that ‘decisions by foreign courts and tribunals are not automatically recognized or enforceable in Kenya.

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Law 360

MAY 22, 2023

Supreme Court's decision last week in Amgen v. Sanofi — the first to enforce the patent enablement requirement in a biotech setting — will be enormously impactful, affecting patent drafting, litigation and licensing, and investment in research and development for life-changing therapies, says Irena Royzman at Kramer Levin.

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Patently O

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

On appeal, the court found this consistent with the plain claim language under Phillips v. The IPR case here relates to the parallel litigation still pending in Masimo Corp. The infringement litigation has been stayed pending outcome of the IPRs. 3d 1303 (Fed. 2005) (en banc), and the specification. Sotera Wireless, Inc.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Climate litigation is rapidly becoming a global phenomenon , making courts essential players in the movement towards employing climate governance to advance and protect human rights, and vice versa. With this growing trend, scholars are shining a light on the influence of the Global South in transnational climate litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JULY 25, 2022

This includes the processes used to identify the laws and documents that apply to the facts of a specific case, including statutes, regulations, and court opinions. Unsurprisingly, a large part of a paralegal’s workload is drafting legal documents. Court hearings before lunch are often a common part of the routine as well.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

After all, this is the company that had already launched the powerful neural net search technology AllSearch and that had pioneered products such as Compose , to help lawyers draft litigation briefs, and, in 2016 , CARA, the first product to use AI to analyze briefs. Successive governors have long claimed they are not.)

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LawSites

JANUARY 29, 2024

The AI-driven legal drafting tool Clearbrief has entered into a partnership with legal research company LexisNexis Legal & Professional that provides its customers who are also Lexis subscribers with access to legal content and citations on Lexis while drafting documents within the Clearbrief add-in for Microsoft Word. ” .

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Law 360

JANUARY 26, 2024

A New York hedge fund that helped draft a failed $2.6 billion deal to take a casino in the Philippines public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company is now trying to intervene in the company's Delaware lawsuit against the casino's operators, challenging a pending settlement that would end their Chancery Court litigation.

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Conflict of Laws

MAY 26, 2021

As was briefly announced earlier on this blog , on 29 January 2021, the Dutch Court of Appeal in The Hague gave a ruling in a long-standing litigation launched by four Nigerian farmers and the Dutch Milieudefensie. Climate change and related human rights litigation is undoubtedly of increasing importance in private international law.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

Share 2022 was a turbulent year for the Supreme Court. In May, a draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito was leaked to the press , revealing that a majority of the court was poised to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion. Less than two months later, a divided court made that decision official, in Dobbs v.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This tit-for-tat directive against Texas SB8 is the latest of the bold moves Newsom has taken and responds directly to the Supreme Court decision last week. JURIST Operations Director Ram Eachambadi files this report from Los Angeles. The law became effective at the end of August.

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LawSites

AUGUST 30, 2022

Out of that voluminous record, you need to find the evidence that supports your arguments, then draft your brief citing to that evidence, and then double-check and mark your citations against the record and build a table of authorities. For the lawyers, it is an enormous amount of work on a tight deadline. 20% Savings.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Guest Commentary: An Unexpected Success for Czech Climate Litigation. On June 15, 2022, the Prague Municipal Court, a first instance administrative court, decided in favor of the plaintiffs in the first Czech strategic climate case ( Klimatická žaloba ?R Eva Balounová *. Introduction. Background to the claim.

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CARET Legal

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s important to note that workflows can be automated by indicating a specific date for one task or event — like the date of a court hearing, or the close date of a sale. Change of ownership notices: Automatically draft and send out change of ownership notices 1 day after closing.

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LawTechnologyToday

MARCH 4, 2021

Here are five tips to obtaining a court order to remove content from the internet. Many platforms can only remove unwanted content if they have a court order. It is important to ensure that the case requires a court order before you start pursuing it. Identify the legal claims and who to sue. Identify who posted the content.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At the Association of Legal Administrators annual conference today in Austin, Texas, NetDocuments is unveiling a powerful knowledge management product to automatically add legal research intelligence to litigation documents, through a partnership with LexisNexis. Enhancing Litigation Documents. It scans for document type (e.g.

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Conflict of Laws

OCTOBER 3, 2022

courts interpret choice-of-law clauses. That paper contains a detailed discussion of the most common interpretive issues—whether the clause selects the tort laws of the chosen jurisdiction in addition to its contract laws, for example—that arise in litigation. I argued for the laws at the time of litigation.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

JUNE 22, 2023

Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys? Be a sponge and know the ins and outs of your legal field, from case law to court procedures. This is what you’ve been looking for!

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

APRIL 10, 2024

The three much-awaited judgments issued by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on April 9, 2024 are truly historic and unprecedented. With this ruling, the Court confirmed that States have a positive obligation to adopt measures to mitigate climate change under Article 8 of the ECHR, the right to family and private life.

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LDA PRO

JANUARY 18, 2022

Paralegals are the first partners before proceeding with a case against anything, you have to share everything to draft you with the best document you could present to the court and the one against you. Marital Litigation. Then the thing you have to deal with is the legal court, judicial institutes, and all. Allegation.

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Mondaq

JULY 29, 2022

This webinar will explore the options for foreign organizations in managing and resolving business contract disputes with Indian parties including contract drafting, mediation, conciliation, expert determination, litigation in the Indian courts, litigation in foreign courts, domestic arbitration, and international arbitration.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

MAY 6, 2022

They can also find positions on the State level, such as the Attorney General’s Office, and finally, opportunities exist at the Federal level with various agencies such as the Department of Justice, Military, Courts, Social Security Administration, CIA, Department of Transportation, and IRS to name a few. ARE YOU NEW TO LITIGATION?

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Paralegal Bootcamp

DECEMBER 9, 2022

They are responsible for: Drafting documents/agreements Corresponding with clients Meeting with clients for the signing of documents Legal Research Using eDiscovery software Representing individuals in small matters Administrative duties. Duties/Responsibilities/Title. Here’s the interesting part. Education/Certification.

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